The Bata Shoe Museum is North America's world-renowned shoe museum, housed in Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama's award-winning five-floor structure. The idea of the museum as a container came from the array of shoe boxes that house the rare and priceless artifacts, protecting them from light, moisture and dust.

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The Citytv Building is a studio complex located at Yonge-Dundas Square. Built in 2004, the building was originally home to Olympic Spirit Toronto, an Olympic-themed entertainment attraction, until 2006. The building was acquired by Rogers Media Inc. in 2007 and is now the new home of four Toronto television stations: City, Omni 1, Omni 2 and CityNews.

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A merging of 19th- and 21st-century architecture, the Daniels Building parallels the history of the city itself. The original neo-Gothic building was the home of Knox College, a Presbyterian theological school. To create the new John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, the historical building was pared back to its roots, restoring original details.

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District 28 is home to two beautiful production studios, a screening room, bistro and a creative co-work space. The space is a media and creative hub in Toronto, inspiring and bringing together all creative types. With an onsite editing suite and screening room, District 28 has all the amenities needed to bring creative projects to life.

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This site is a Toronto landmark and a dominant feature in the Don Valley. From 1889 to 1989, this site was an operating brick works. Since 1992, Evergreen has developed and adapted the 16 historically significant buildings to meet the needs of the community. The Kilns building is currently being transformed into a year-round facility, striving for carbon neutrality.

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Ontario Heritage Trust staff will tell visitors about Doris McCarthy, a key figure in Canada’s artistic community, and the experience she had building Fool’s Paradise. Visitors can tour McCarthy’s eccentric house/studio and learn about the artist-in-residence program now operating there. They can also explore the beautiful grounds, with gardens, a large pond and spectacular views of the Scarborough Bluffs.

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George Brown House is historically significant for its association with Father of Confederation, Globe newspaper founder and leading abolitionist George Brown (1818-80). In 1989, the Ontario Heritage Trust restored the building to its original state. Highlights include the art nouveau dining room, gracious front hall and Brown’s library. The site is often featured on the CBC television show "Murdoch Mysteries."

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This schoolhouse was built in 1869 by the farming families of the rural community known as L'Amoreaux. Several generations of children attended the school until it closed in 1955. One of hundreds of schoolhouses that used to dot the Ontario landscape, the Zion Schoolhouse serves as a rare reminder of how education was provided in rural areas in the past.

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The Revue Cinema is the oldest purpose-built movie theatre still regularly used for exhibiting films in Toronto. Continually showing movies since its opening in 1912, the Revue is a monument to the mass phenomenon of movie-going, which exploded throughout North America and Europe in the early years of the 20th century. The Revue’s programming covers the gamut of cinema history.

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Designed by renowned architect Raymond Moriyama, this building opened in 1999 and was immediately heralded for its contemporary design features. Visitors to the Stephen E. Quinlan Building will immediately be struck by the architectural features of the building – an openness filled with natural light and wide spaces for movement and exploration.

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For 50 years, the McLennan Physical Laboratories have been the home of cutting-edge research in physics, astrophysics and astronomy – carried out by scientists trying to understand everything from quarks to climate change to gravitational waves. It is one of the tallest public buildings on the St. George campus of the University of Toronto.

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Since 1963, this operation has become one of the world’s premier rental facilities, offering the widest inventory of state-of-the-art professional production equipment in Canada. In 2010, the company moved into this new home – a multimillion-dollar production complex that serves industry professionals while offering a full range of production and related support services – all under one roof.

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